Music rightsholders have long raised prickly questions about PRO expenditure and efficiency. At the same time, PROs have staunchly defended the chunk of cash they burn – pointing to, amongst other things, the trillions of lines of data they process annually in the modern era. Yet a storm might now be brewing at the heart of this conversation, propelled by two very topical factors.
Source: Is a reckoning coming to the way collection societies spend songwriters’ money?